you Know your a DBS Geek when

[pez2002]

(1 you walk down the street and count How many Dishes are up

(2 you know the Lineup of Directv or dishnetwork by heart

(3 when someone says the dish Sucks you just start Laughing

(4 when the cable guy comes to pick up your old cable box you say Ahhhhhhhhhh no more crappy service

(5 you have every Pay channel on Directv or sub to Tc premeire





So can you think of anymore :coffee



Its too damm hot for coffee

[Mark Holtz]

* The DirecTivo is the greatest thing since sliced bread because it can record two programs at once.
* You live on the west coast, and can calculate the 3 hour difference in your head.
* ... and get to watch the new programs three hours earlier than your friends.
* You actively play the Charlie Chat and Tech Chat drinking games.
* You smile when some says that they finally got channel XYZ, and you been watching it for two years already.

[MikeW]

You visit online forums dedicated to DBS topics ?

[HarryD]

I believe I'll have a number 1. Whether I'm walking or driving, I'm counting...

[Steve Mehs]

2 you know the Lineup of Directv or dishnetwork by heart

Change the or to an and :D I never had DirecTV and still know most of their channel line up :)

-When you scan the EPG dialy for any new channels
-Put extra satellite dishes up to make your house look cool
-Regularly check your ss to make sure you have the best possible signal
-Spend hours a day on satellite related internet messege boards :D
-Goto Sears and channel surf through all the channels you don't subscribe to

and the one I did once or twice on ocassion. Find out when the dealer chat replays are on Dish Network, go to the nearest Sears, gradually go to the electronics department look at the display 301 and make your way to channel 999 and watch all the 'top secret' dealer info :D

[Jacob S]

You are a dbs addict if you . . .

> When you post over 3,500 threads in just a little over a year

> When you have a website dedicated to a dbs topic

> When you buy almost every new receiver that comes out, owning almost every receiver Dish has ever come out with

> When you are a top 10 poster of a dbs discussion board

> When you subscribe to almost every channel

> When you have 4-6 receivers on an account

[Karl Foster]

* When you can tell if someone has Dish or Directv by looking only at the azimuth the dish is pointed at

* You will only rent an apartment with a patio on the south side of the building

* You will only buy a house without trees on the south side of the yard

* You run RG-6 wire right next to the existing RG-59 cable and understand why

* You resent the large cable box sitting in your parking strip (like I do)

* You laugh when you see Comcast trucks at the neighbor's house once a week

[Jacob S]

>When you have every service you can get (DirecTv and Dish and/or ExpressVu, StarChoice, C-Band, etc)

>When you have FTA receiver(s) on top of what I listed above

>When you have a satellite farm (multiple satellite dishes pointing at many different satellites

>When you rig the dishes up or have dishes that receiver multiple locations (lots of lnbf's on each dish)

[UpOnTheMountain]

* When your default home page is DBSTalk.com

* When you know what it means to be gold and see a :dance:

* When you take a vacation day to install a second dish, just to get one extra local channel

* When you keep a hand broom ready by the door in snow storms to brush the snow off your pole mounts, but say "it will melt off the sidewalk in time ..."

* When you understand and get the concern of gecko fade

[Jtater]

I have to add the obvious.

...... When you add to a thread about being a DBS geek.

[mnassour]

And how about...

...when you bought an Echostar 2000 just for the UHF remote for $800+....and didn't mind a bit.

[BearsFan]

---->When your wife comes back from a trip, and says: "I noticed a ton of DirecTV dishes for you in the neighborhood I stayed in."

:blush:

--BearsFan

[Claude Greiner]

How True, How True.

I think I fall in just about everything that was mentioned on this thread!

The only thing is that I only subscribe to Directv about one month out of the year. Just enough to try out their recievers and catch up with whats going on with their service :)

The only other thing I might add to this thread is that you have a FTA reciever to be able to pick up all the test channels :)

[Nick]

"You will only rent an apartment with a patio on the south side of the building"

:thats: I've actually done that -- twice! :rotfl:

- when you know how to make an accurate sat-finder for less than $10 from three ordinary items found at Wal-Mart.

- when you can easily calculate the additional wind-load factor when adding yet another dish to the pole. :scratchin

- when you get really crabby waiting for the release of the latest, greatest IRD. :ramblinon

- when your HD PQ is so-o-o perfect, your limited vocabulary won't cough up enough adjectives to adequately describe just how good your picture is and you wind up flailing your arms in the air in a futile attempt to demonstrate what perfection looks like. :joy:
- and finally, you no longer stop by those crappy :icon_lame big screen displays in stores! :icon_da:

[JBKing]

...when you wish you had TNGTony's transponder knowledge! :dance07:

[UpOnTheMountain]

or JacobS's posting power and stamina ! :-)

[ramcm7]

- when, rather than waiting on hold to actually talk with someone at a distant Best Buy, you drive more than 100 miles looking for a certain receiver.
- when you do that more than once.

:goodandba

[Jacob S]

Thats a good one UpOnTheMountain. I have actually been posting on satellite forums since the Dishplayer first came out in which I bought when it was first released using WebTv (now called MSN TV) to do so. That was probably about 3 or 4 years ago.

[dvdguyjt]

You know you're a DBS geek when.....

-You go to a Pizza Parlor and try to figure out how to turn a shiny pizza pan into an extra dish for your house...

[Jacob S]

> When you record every Charlie Chat
> When you try to constantly try to get your signal strength up to 100/125%
> When you upgrade your dish from the legacy dish to dishpro or your sw-21 switch to a twin even though you do not need it when it does not give you problems

[STXJim]

When you've been lurking everyday for over a month now.
With nothing of interest to post about....
But this................ !pu****!

[jrjcd]

...and you really find you appreciate the caller ID information popping up on the screen....

[HTguy]

How 'bout when you spend more time on dbs websites than you do actually watching TV?

:icon_lame

[Jacob S]

Yeah, that is a good one right there, and sometimes I do spend more time on here than watch tv, just depends on how busy I am. I tend to make more of an effort to come on here than pay too much attention to tv but I have the tv on while I am on the internet anyways.

[BobMurdoch]

Nah, I got you all beat........

You know you're a DBS geek when.........

You postpone Birthday sex with the significant other to watch the Tech Chat on E*.

Sorry, if that's too much information for most of you, but it fit the topic too perfectly.

[DarrellP]

You drive around with a Dish 500 mounted to the top of your Subaru Forester. No joke! A guy at work is doing it.

[Nick]

Nah, I got you all beat........

You know you're a DBS geek when.........

You postpone Birthday sex with the significant other to watch the Tech Chat on E*.

Sorry, if that's too much information for most of you, but it fit the topic too perfectly.No, that's not too much info, Bob. I'm sending you 20 bucks, please send a copy of the video... :grin:

P.S. Please explain (in detail) how is "birthday sex" is different from regular sex???

[Jtater]

P.S. Please explain (in detail) how is "birthday sex" is different from regular sex???

It's different cause on your birthday you become an older man with a still younger(than she was) woman.

[BobMurdoch]

No, that's not too much info, Bob. I'm sending you 20 bucks, please send a copy of the video... :grin:

P.S. Please explain (in detail) how is "birthday sex" is different from regular sex???

Birthday sex usually involves.........

1. Her in lingerie
2. Selfish sex (less foreplay aimed at her, more at me)
3. I pick the music
4. I choose which country to visit (hopefully that's vague enough for the censors) and where we will celebrate the happy ending

Of course, the tables are turned when it is HER birthday.

Hmmmmm. someone wanna tell Steve what a happy ending is? Just kidding (I owe you a beer when you hit 21...)

[cooper]

When you're not even in the industry, yet, your sitting at your computer watching the live feed of Rainbow 1's launch clock wind down. :nono2:

[dlsnyder]

When you're not even in the industry, yet, your sitting at your computer watching the live feed of Rainbow 1's launch clock wind down. :nono2:

And while doing so you are chatting with other like-minded DBS geeks on the internet. :eek2:

[Jacob S]

When you watch the Charlie/Tech Chat monthly while chatting on the DBSTalk.com's chat area.